Analysis of God's Battleground
Robert William Service 1874 – 1958
God dwells in you; in pride and shame,
In all you do to blight or bless;
In all you are of praise and blame,
In beauty or in ugliness.
"Divine Creation" - What a fraud!
God did not make you . . . You make God.
God lives in me, in all I feel
Of love and hate, of joy and pain,
Of grace and greed, or woe and weal,
Of fear and cheer, of loss and gain:
For good or evil I am He,
Yea, saint or devil, One are we.
God fends and fights in each of us;
His altars we, or bright or dim;
So with no sacerdotal fuss
But worthy act let's worship Him:
Goodness is Godness - let us be
Deserving of Divinity.
And of His presence be aware,
And by our best His love express;
A gentle word is like a prayer,
A kindly act is holiness:
Don't let God down; let Him prevail
And write his AMEN to our tale.
Scheme | ABACXX DEDEFF CGCGFF HBHCII |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11010101 01111111 01111101 01010100 01010101 11111111 11010111 11011101 11011101 11011101 11110111 11110111 11010111 11011111 11111 11011101 1011111 01010100 01110101 011011101 01011101 01011100 11111101 011011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 768 |
Words | 166 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 145 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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